4 Lucy Stone Quotes on Freedom

Lucy Stone quotes on freedom

4. Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent, and since the soul of womanhood never can be queenly and noble so long as it must beg bread for its body, is it not better, even at the expense of a vast deal of annoyance, that they whose lives deserve respect and are greater than their garments should give an example by which woman may more easily work out her own emancipation?

6. Too much has already been said and written about 'women's sphere'. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.

22. The press, many-tongued, surpassed itself in reproaches upon these women who had so far departed from their sphere as to speak in public. But, with anointed lips and a consecration which put even life itself at stake, these peerless women pursued the even tenor of their way, saying to their opponents only: 'Woe is me, if I preach not this gospel of freedom for the slave.' Over all came the melody of Whittier's 'When woman's heart is breaking Shall woman's voice be hushed? '

34. But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.